Symposium on Research Opportunities in Electrochemical Energy Storage
Beyond Lithium Ion: Materials Perspectives
October 7 — 8, 2010
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Building 5200 Visitor Center
Tennessee Conference Rooms A, B, and C
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The goal of this Symposium is to advance our understanding of how materials science and engineering can accelerate progress in scalable electrochemical energy storage science and technology.
Motivated by society’s great need for advances in energy-storage technology, and by the demonstrated achievements and tremendous potential for materials science and engineering, a consortium of IBM Research and four U.S. National Laboratories (Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, and Pacific Northwest) will hold a symposium on October 7-8, 2010 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to discuss how materials science will advance electrochemical energy storage science and technologies to accelerate innovation, decrease costs, and improve the safety of advanced, scalable electrochemical energy storage concepts and systems “beyond lithium ion”.
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Summary
Inspired by the successful 2009 IBM Almaden Institute symposium on “Scalable Energy Storage: Beyond Lithium Ion,” held August 26 – 27, 2009, at IBM’s Almaden Research Center, a consortium of IBM Research and U.S. National Laboratories are holding a series of two symposia in 2010 to bring together scientists and engineers focused on transformation advances in scalable energy storage, with emphasis on (1) computational perspectives, and (2) materials perspectives. This October 7-8 Symposium on Materials Perspectives is the second of those events after the successful conclusion of the May 3-4 Computational Perspectives event.
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